Your mission As one of our first Lead Engineers, you’ll define the backend roadmap, architecture, design, and development of our platform using object-oriented principles and best practices. Ensure backend systems are robust, scalable, secure, and optimized for high performance and reliability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver backend solutions aligned with product and business requirements. Seek opportunities for technological innovation and product enhancements, actively collaborating with key external partners to broaden our product offerings. Mentor junior team members and lay the foundation of our engineering standards, tooling, and processes. Your profile You bring 5 years of experience in Software Development (ideally in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment) You enjoy all aspects of building a product from scratch. You love discussing solutions for customer challenges just as making them a reality. Taking full responsibility for the features you create, you ensure thorough testing and smooth deployment. With advanced technical expertise in Python, Go or other object oriented programming languages (e.g. Java, C#, etc.), you have experience in building scalable microservice architectures. Your code is reusable, well- tested and ready to be shipped directly to our customers. You are fluent in English. Why us? Take the opportunity to help shape a growing start-up from the ground up and have a measurable impact on the early development of our product. Build up a solution disrupting the whole market of processing supply chain documents in conservative industries such as construction. Work with a team experienced both in product development and our target industries. Perks such as e.g. construction site visits and included gym membership. Get all the additional benefits of a start-up (flat hierarchies, flexible working hours, responsibility, work hybrid-style, cool team events. etc.). About us VESTIGAS is a fast-growing startup offering a supply chain operating system for the construction industry. Our solution is the digital, independent and legally secure platforn for orders, delivery notes, and invoices. This will allow us to save >10bn € of costs and several million tons of CO2 in Germany alone. VESTIGAS has already partnered with 14 of the top 20 construction companies and 17 of the top 20 suppliers in the German construction industry. We have quadrupled our team in the last two years and are looking forward to pushing the construction industry to new heights We are an passionate team of 30 with a can-do attitude and strong action bias, w orking out ouf our beautiful office at Goetheplatz in central Munich. We love working on solutions that are not just incremental improvements, but real leaps within an industry and value great team spirit, going the extra mile for our customers as well as open and transparent communication.